I've got painted over Red & White +/- 3"x7" Whelen xenon strobe lights on the front fender and grill. At first glance the original '97 lights look like Whelen 700 series, but they don't have a series number on the lens. I may have to pull them if no one knows offhand, but was there a predecessor that would be interchangeable with the 700? How do they compare to the Tomar 3"x7"?

The reason I ask is that there are 700 series scene lights that I'd like to replace the deactivated strobes with. They'd be more legal (not being strobing or red) on the front of the rig. I'd like to swap them out for improved visibility and more options to light the area around the rig.

Thoughts? I'm sure they could have LED bulbs if the lenses would work.

97 Crestline wrote:Had a friend do the upper and lower ball joints... they're a major pain to do.

Took it to Ford for a front end alignment... I wasn't impressed when they tried to charge me $200 more than the quoted price for the wheel alignment. All because it needed an alignment bushing changed. They claim, after the fact, that changing bushings isn't a part of the alignment. Even though I told them where my spare bushings were... they told me I should've told them it would need one changed. I pointed out that was beyond what I could actually determine with a level and tape measure.

They proceeded to ask me if it had ever been in an accident... I had to resist the urge to say 'duh' but instead only said it's a 20 year old ambulance with 200k miles... it's safe to say yes. In its 16k+ hours of use it has likely been banged up a bit.

There's likely a reason the fenders are rust free.

Needless to say I spoke with the manager and he adjusted the bill to something I could live with. I still wasn't happy they were 20 hours past when they said it would be ready. It didn't help they didn't touch it the first day it was there.

Alignment still needs work. It would seem that they could only find a 2.5 degree bushing locally... even though they figured it would need a 3.5 degree bushing. They didn't tell me what they'd done till I was there to pick it up... claimed the castor was only out 0.2 degrees on the drivers side. If that's the case why does it pull to the drivers side worse than before all the work started.

Now they want $277 to take out the wrong bushing and throw it back on the alignment rack... I think not. I'll be letting their manager why they won't be getting any more of their business... shysters.

I'll have a friend throw in the correct bushing, and deal with alignment by itself... likely somewhere else or with the tape measure & level method.

I’ve now got 4W G4 LEDs and 2.5W wedge (921) installed. Surprisingly the 2.5 throws more light in the overhead fixtures than the 4.

The dimmable 4W are tree shaped, and they throw light in 360 deg. They are encased in clear silicon. I think they’d be a better design for the exterior flood lights. The warm white is the same colour as the halogen bulbs and almost as bright as the high Halogen.

The 2.5W are a flat 1” diameter disc that throw light in only one direction. They are also the same colour as the halogen and equally bright to the Halogen. They don’t throw the light quite as evenly as the other round lights.